Experiences across Material Types

"The Life and Work of Alexander L. Kielland"

by Ellen Beate Grinnen (Brodd)

Http:\www.kielland.org\LivVirke

BACKGROUNDIn Norwegian litterature during the period from 1860-1900 we count four leading writers:

•Jonas Lie•Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson•Henrik Ibsen (A Doll's House)•Alexander L. Kielland

Alexander Kielland was born 150 years ago this year.  This causes for a celebrationOne way of marking the occation is a information system.

PURPOSE

• There will be made an information system with a multilanguage user interface. The system is supposed to contain material about and by Alexander L. Kielland:   his life, work and publications.

• The system will partly contain digitized documents (full text, photos, sounds), partly references to such documents and partly linking to other information sources.

• The system shall reach as many as possible form children to researchers. The system must give a fast and easy access to the data.

Types of material

• Extracts from the Works of  Kielland  • Novels  • Drama  • Short stories  • Reviews • Articles from  reference books and 

encyclopaedia;

• Parts form books about Alexander L. Kielland • Letters (original,  utskrevet tekst) • Songs • Pictures • Sound recordings • Pictures / Videos • Recipes 

The Work

The Life - clickable family tree

Searching

• Selection of material

• Why is some of the material not there?

• Find /select formats for the different physical  datatypes  

• Structuring the material 

• Navigating by menus 

• Searching  

•     Free text

•     Searching the database  "Base Alexander"

Conclusion

• Plan carefully and thoroughly

• Find more than one way to reach the material

• Make an fast and easy access to the data